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Where does Furiosa fit into the Mad Max timeline? George Miller says it doesn’t matter

By Austen Goslin
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Doctor Who put Steven Moffat back where he belongs

By Joshua Rivera
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The top 5 times a remastered Phantom Menace trailer made me incorrectly go ‘Star Wars is so back’

By Matt Patches
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The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this May

By Toussaint Egan and Polygon Staff
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Upgrade is a terrific cyberpunk thriller disguised as an action movie, and it’s now on Netflix

By Austen Goslin
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3 Body Problem renewed for season 2 — and however many more seasons it needs to wrap

By Austen Goslin
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Furiosa kicks sand in the face of boring franchise-filler movies

By Rosie Knight
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What’s it like to crush on a Victorian man transported to modern London? Kaliane Bradley had to find out

By Joshua Rivera
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ posters and trailers all contain a huge spoiler

By Tasha Robinson
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Doctor Who’s new season breaks one big tradition

By Joshua Rivera
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ VFX lead explains its ethical use of machine learning

How Wētā FX’s digital tools made the film possible, without replacing workers or stealing other people’s art

By Austen Goslin
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George Miller explains what his live-action Furiosa kept from the anime version

By Rosie Knight
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes brings nothing to the table

By Joshua Rivera
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Where to watch all the Planet of the Apes movies on streaming

By Toussaint Egan

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Star Trek: Discovery boldly goes where no Trek has gone before by saying religion is... OK, actually

‘Whistlespeak’ breaks from Trek tradition to be pretty chill about believing in a higher power

By Dylan Roth
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First photo confirms: James Gunn’s Superman will wear his underwear on the outside

By Susana Polo
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Gen V producers won’t recast the late Chance Perdomo’s character

By Austen Goslin
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The animated sci-fi mystery Mars Express aims high and lands among the stars

By Toussaint Egan
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The makers of Dune 2’s viral popcorn bucket didn’t see the jokes coming

By Austen Goslin
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Fallout took the Alien approach with the Brotherhood of Steel — and it worked

The power suit had to be ‘kind of klutzy’ to work

By Zosha Millman
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Ridley Scott’s Alien introduced the perfect sci-fi villain

By Daniel Dockery
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Fallout’s costume designer explains why The Ghoul looks so hot

By Ana Diaz
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Dawnrunner is a mecha-kaiju comic about the ‘Bandai-ification’ of the military-industrial complex

The 5-issue limited series is one of the year’s best new comics

By Toussaint Egan
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The best sci-fi movies to watch on Netflix this April

By Toussaint Egan and Polygon Staff
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Help, the Rebel Moon franchise has fallen and it can’t get up!

By Matt Patches
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Fallout’s bloody wedding continues one of fiction’s longest-running tropes

By Ashley Bardhan
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Fallout’s NCR reveal hurt — even if it was inevitable

By D.G.P. Rector
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First Transformers One trailer shows Optimus Prime and Megatron as best buds

By Michael McWhertor
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The dirty secret to making sci-fi believable

By Austen Goslin
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Kyle MacLachlan’s subtle dread and kind smile made him perfect for Fallout

By Ashley Bardhan
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Fallout’s final scene hints at a more complicated universe

By Leon Miller
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Everything Fallout has revealed about the NCR

By Leon Miller
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